VELO

Simulation

We are responsible for the EvtGen Monte Carlo generator within the experiment.

Trigger and data stripping

We are involved with the HLT2 (high-level trigger) and data stripping activity.

Upgrade

We are interested in the physics potential of an LHCb upgrade. In particular, we are examining the requirements that operating at much higher rates will impose on the vertex detector. We are involved in the upgrade of the VELO subdetector.

TORCH

We are members of the TORCH collaboration, carrying out R&D for a novel time-of-flight detector that could provide particle identification information, to discriminate between charged pions, kaons and protons at low momentum.

We have leading roles in the collaboration in measurements related to the angle γ (gamma) of the so-called Unitarity Triangle and of rare b hadron decays mediated by the b→sμ+μ− transition. We also have interests in several other areas, particularly in analyses involving Dalitz plot analysis. We hosted an LHCb UK workshop on Dalitz plot analysis in October 2009.

Openings

Information on job openings and Ph.D. positions in the Warwick EPP group can be found here. Please feel free to contact us (T dot J dot Gershon at warwick dot ac dot uk) for more information or to discuss possibilities.

Theses and Alumni

Paul Harrison (moved to ATLAS)

Mark Whitehead CERN-THESIS-2012-130 "Observation of the decay B0→D0K+K− with the LHCb detector at CERN", moved to a CERN fellowship

Matt Williams CERN-THESIS-2013-351 "Search for a wrong-flavour contribution to Bs→Dsπ decays and study of CP violation in Bs→DsK decays", moved to University of Birmingham

David Dossett CERN-THESIS-2013-299 "Measurement of the B0d,s→K∗±h∓ decay branching fractions at the LHCb experiment", moved to University of Melbourne

Matt Reid CERN-THESIS-2014-125 "Branching fraction measurements of B0(s)→J/ψK0Sh+h(′)− decays", took a job in the financial sector

Tomas Pilar CERN-THESIS-2014-302 "Measurement of the neutral D meson mixing parameters in D0→KSπ+π− decays", took a job in software

Rafael Silva Coutinho CERN-THESIS-2015-117 "Studies of charmless three-body b-hadron decays at LHCb", moved to University of Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel Craik CERN-THESIS-2015-285 "A measurement of the CKM angle γ from studies of B→DKπ Dalitz plots", moved to University of Edinburgh

Christoph Langenbruch (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Warwick) moved to take up Emmy Noether fellowship at RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Charlotte Wallace CERN-THESIS-2016-064 "Studies of excited D mesons in B meson decays", moved to University of Bristol and then to a civil service job

Ronnie Rera CERN-THESIS-2017-018 "Search for the decay B+→D∗−K+π+", went into officer training with the US Air Force

Chris Everett CERN-THESIS-2016-322 "An angular analysis of Λb→Λμ+μ− decays at the LHCb experiment", moved to nuclear physics group at University of Liverpool

Jean Wicht (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow) returned to Switzerland and left the field of particle physics

Daniel O'Hanlon CERN-THESIS-2017-184 "Studies of CP-violation in charmless three-body b-hadron decays", moved to Universita Bologna, Italy with an INFN fellowship

Wenbin Qian (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow) moved to take up an academic position at UCAS, China

Anton Poluektov (Postdoctoral research fellow) moved on to take up an academic position at CPPM, Marseille

David Loh (Ph.D. student), left academic research

Abhijit Mathad CERN-THESIS-2018-237 "Search for CP violation in charmless three-body decays of strange-beauty baryons", moved to University of Zurich, Switzerland